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Pietaro: Musicians as Cultural Warriors in the Occupy Movement
Zmag Article, February, 01 2012
John Pietaro
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Occupy musicians get active and support the Occupy Movement
Pietaro: Hazel Dickens, 1935-2011
Zmag Article, June, 01 2011
John Pietaro
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Remembering the Appalachian activist singer
Pietaro: Matthew Jones, 1936 - 2011
Zmag Article, May, 01 2011
John Pietaro
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A civil rights folk singer and activist who should not be forgotten
Pietaro: Phil Ochs
Zmag Article, March, 04 2011
John Pietaro
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A new documentary on the legendary but tragic folk singer
Pietaro: Irwin Silber, 1925-2010
Zmag Article, October, 28 2010
John Pietaro
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Remembering an activist, author, and a primary creator of the urban folk song revival
Pietaro: Abbey Lincoln, 1930-2010
Zmag Article, October, 01 2010
John Pietaro
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A tribute to the late jazz singer and civil rights activist
Pietaro: FDR And The New Deal For Beginners
Zmag Article, September, 01 2010
John Pietaro
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A new graphic history in the For Beginner's series
Pietaro: A People's History of American Empire
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
John Pietaro
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A People’s History of American Empire brings the visionary writings of Howard Zinn to life. While Zinn has, in the past few decades, been accepted as the dean of left historians, co-author Paul Buhle has been making his own contributions to histor...
Pietaro: Utah Phillips, 1935 to 2008
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
John Pietaro
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Utah Phillips was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935. He decided early on that he would dedicate his time to social justice. By the mid-1950s, he was a veteran of the Korean War, damaged from the sights and sounds around him, a ...
Pietaro: Music Review - The Live Wire: An audio documentary, with Woody and Marjorie Guthrie
Zmag Article, November, 01 2007
John Pietaro
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The Live Wire is a find that music writers often hope for, but only occasionally come across: an historic rarity. This is what it must have been like to hear Woody Guthrie in the days that bridged the Great Depression and the grating repression of...
Pietaro: Cheeky Woman, Bev Grant & the Dissident Daughters
Zmag Article, October, 01 2007
John Pietaro
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Singer/songwriter Bev Grant has been an active presence in the protest and folk scene since the 1960s. She was one of the radical upstarts in Greenwich Village coffee- houses when the Village still felt bohemian and affording ...
Pietaro: ReadNext Poetry Squad
Zmag Article, May, 01 2007
John Pietaro
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R ap music and Hip-Hop culture grew up much as any folk form does: through the ingenuity of a people living in oppressive surroundings and creating art through economic constraints. Rap’s roots can be found in the Af...
Pietaro: Paul Robeson: Standing Tall
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
John Pietaro
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T he conception of art as a weapon has been promoted during various trying times in history. Within the 20th century, the period bridging the early 1900s and the end of the Great Depression is most...
Pietaro: Sis Cunningham: 1909-2004
Zmag Article, September, 01 2004
John Pietaro
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Agnes Cunningham was born in Blain County, Oklahoma in 1909. She described her father, Chick, as a champion fiddler and a “Debs Socialist.” As a child of poverty, she watched the erosion of ...
